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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.
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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.

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Innovation

At Continuus Material Recovery in Northeast Philadelphia, machines sort through trash to find the plastic materials that are used to make fuel pellets. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Science

Could the future be built out of trash? A plan to turn plastic, paper into wallboard

Continuus Materials, a Texas-based company with a Northeast Philadelphia plant, will begin producing wallboard out of recycled flexible plastic and paper.

6 years ago

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Lifestyle
Billy Penn

Ugly fruits and veggies delivered to your door — stoop thieves be damned

Watch out, Philly. More ugly fruits and veggies are coming to town.

6 years ago

Chantel Williams exhales a puff of vapor from a Juul pen in Vancouver, Wash., Tuesday, April 16, 2019. (Craig Mitchelldyer/AP Photo)
Health

Juul nicotine hit may be ‘worst for kids, best for smokers’

The brainchild of two Stanford University design students, Juul launched in 2015 and quickly leapfrogged over its competitors.

6 years ago

FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2017, file photo Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and robotics researcher Cynthia Breazeal reaches to touch social robot Jibo at the company's headquarters in Boston. When robots move like humans and talk like humans, even if only a little bit, it’s natural that we will treat them more like humans. (Steven Senne/AP Photo, File)
Science

Be wary of robot emotions; ‘simulated love is never love’

When a robot "dies," does it make you sad? For lots of people, the answer is "yes," and that tells us something important, and potentially worrisome.

6 years ago

Unknown number calling in the middle of the night. Phone call from stranger. Person holding mobile and smartphone in bedroom bed home late. Unexpected call woke up.
Radio Times
Lifestyle

Make the robocalls stop!

Chances are you retrieved one of the 26 billion robocalls made last year. We discuss robocalls, what's being done to stop them, and how to protect yourself.

Air Date: April 4, 2019 10:00 am

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3D Illustration of Human Cells (Bigstock/Usis)
Science

CHOP developing Pediatric Cell Atlas to better understand childhood health and disease

The atlas would map every cell in a child’s body and advance understanding of how and why pediatric diseases occur.

6 years ago

A new initiative through TerraCycle will bring products like Haagen Dazs to local stores in reusable packaging (Provided)
Community

Haagen Dazs, Procter & Gamble to offer reusable containers in Pa., N.J.

Recycling company Terracycle will pick up the glass and plastic bottles and cartons from grocery stores, or your home, to be cleaned and refilled.

6 years ago

1776, a new co-working space has opened up in the Cherry Hill Mall. The space includes a small retail store (Courtesy PREIT)
Community

Cherry Hill Mall offers co-working space with a twist

Co-working is often a more urban phenomenon. But in the heard of suburban South Jersey, 1776 has opened a co-working space on the 2nd floor of the Cherry Hill Mall.

6 years ago

Steve Carey of Wildwood Crest, New Jersey, has found that shared appointments with other patients trying to manage their Type 1 diabetes have been very helpful. “You don’t feel alone with the problem you have,” he says. (Provided)
Health

The doctor will see you now — and you, and you, and you

Group appointments of six to 10 patients are becoming more popular for certain chronic conditions in Philadelphia area. People benefit from sharing their common experiences.

6 years ago

Tidal flooding in Stone Harbor in Feb. 2016 as photographed by Zeke Orzech (‏@Zeke_O via Twitter).
Down the Shore
Community

Cape May County launches near real-time flood risk mapping system

A New Jersey coastal county has unveiled a tool that will aid residents, business owners, and government decision-makers in preparing for tidal flooding.

6 years ago

(Together for West Philadelphia)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Philadelphia doesn’t need Amazon. The opportunities are already here and they’re homegrown.

Projects like the University City Science Center, Pennovation Center, and the future Schuylkill Yards represent billions of dollars in new investment.

6 years ago

In this June 22, 2016 photo made available by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, the FDA's Director of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, speaks at FDA's Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Medical Device Amendments. Under Shuren, new device approvals have more than tripled, while warnings to device manufacturers about product safety and quality have fallen roughly 80 percent, an Associated Press investigation found. (Michael J. Ermarth/FDA via AP)
Science

U.S. goal to be ‘first’ on devices worries former regulators

Dr. Jeffrey Shuren was adamant: The United States would never cut corners to fast-track the approval of medical devices.

6 years ago

Voters in Pennsylvania's primary election in 2012. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Can behavioral scientists help make city government more effective?

The city of Philadelphia is working with scientists in the area to boost voter turnout for the 2019 municipal elections.

6 years ago

A man cleans the carpet in his car with vacuum cleaner. (Bigstock Image)
The Pulse
Science

Why put carpets in cars, when they’re so hard to clean?

Leaves, paper, crumbs and other bits of trash cling to auto carpets — don’t even mention the liquid stains and smells.

7 years ago

Listen 7:23
Dylan Wiliam, a British education researcher, speaks to the crowd at a ResearchEd conference in Philadelphia on Saturday October 27. (Avi Wolfman-Arent/Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

A move to combat ‘folk teaching,’ conference connecting teachers with researchers comes to Pa.

Unlike an academic conference, a ResearchEd conference brings researchers face to face with principals and teachers.

7 years ago

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